Shelburne Essays: Studies of religions dualism. Sixth seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1909 - 355 Seiten |
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... existence , therefore it is absurd for me to deny that He exists . So , briefly , runs the famous ontological argument which in one form or another has wrought a kind of meta- physical insanity . A hundred times it has been exorcised ...
... existence , therefore it is absurd for me to deny that He exists . So , briefly , runs the famous ontological argument which in one form or another has wrought a kind of meta- physical insanity . A hundred times it has been exorcised ...
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... existence was excessively harsh or even lonely . A hut thrown up on the banks of some stream or lake , often on the picturesque slope of hill or mountain , gave all the shelter that was needed in that warm climate , and food was ...
... existence was excessively harsh or even lonely . A hut thrown up on the banks of some stream or lake , often on the picturesque slope of hill or mountain , gave all the shelter that was needed in that warm climate , and food was ...
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... existence depended on the physical sacrifice , should have been the learners and followers . And the manner in which the new faith spread is sufficiently clear . Here and there to some lonely thinker the swathing bands of prescription ...
... existence depended on the physical sacrifice , should have been the learners and followers . And the manner in which the new faith spread is sufficiently clear . Here and there to some lonely thinker the swathing bands of prescription ...
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... : ( 1 ) The existence of God , ( 2 ) the immortality of the soul , ( 3 ) the freedom of the truth of the Upanishads in the vivid conscious- ness of will ( without which no morality is possible ) . These 16 SHELBURNE ESSAYS.
... : ( 1 ) The existence of God , ( 2 ) the immortality of the soul , ( 3 ) the freedom of the truth of the Upanishads in the vivid conscious- ness of will ( without which no morality is possible ) . These 16 SHELBURNE ESSAYS.
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... existence of God will be precluded by that of space , which is infinite , and therefore admits of nothing external to itself , and nothing within save that which fills it , i . e . matter ( the most satisfactory definition of which is ...
... existence of God will be precluded by that of space , which is infinite , and therefore admits of nothing external to itself , and nothing within save that which fills it , i . e . matter ( the most satisfactory definition of which is ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
allegory Anaxagoras antinomy Anytus Athenians Athens Augustine Augustine's beauty believe Brahma Bunyan called century Christ Christian corrupted creed dæmons death deism deists Descartes desire divine doctrine dogma doubt dualism earth egotism emotion Epictetus escape eternal evil eyes faculty faith fear feel felicity finite friends gods Grace harmony hear heart heaven Hindu honour human ideas ignorance imagination India individual infinite inner instinct Jansenists Jesuits knowledge learned light live look man's Manichæan Manichæism mankind matter Meletus ment mind moral mystery mystical nature never oracle Pascal pass passions Pelagianism philosophy Plato Port-Royal quincunxes rationalism reality reason Religio Medici religion religious righteousness Rousseau seems sense shadows Sir Thomas Browne society Socrates soul speak spirit suppose sympathy talk theology theory things thou thought tion true truth understanding unto Upanishads virtue voice whole wisdom words Xanthippe Xenophon Yajnavalkya
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 156 - The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Seite 168 - For my descent then, it was, as is well known by many, of a low and inconsiderable generation; my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families in the land.
Seite 163 - Dangerous it were for the feeble brain of man to wade far into the doings of the Most High ; whom although to know be life, and joy to make mention of his name ; yet our soundest knowledge is, to know that we know him not as indeed he is, neither can know him ; and our safest eloquence concerning him, is our silence, when we confess without confession, that his glory is inexplicable, hie greatness above our capacity and reach.
Seite 188 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame. The mind's disease, its ruling passion came...
Seite 163 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 161 - And surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we are all asleep in this world, and that the conceits of this life are as mere dreams, to those of the next, as the phantasms of the night, to the conceit of the day.
Seite 159 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it ; Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have...
Seite 163 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Seite 157 - Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a History, but a piece of Poetry, and would sound to common ears like a Fable.
Seite 89 - Accordingly, two cities have been formed by two loves : the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God ; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self.